The activity concentration of a solution of Se-75 has been measured at BIPM as part of an international comparison organised on behalf of Section II of the CCEMRI. Two methods were used: the traditional 4 pi beta-gamma coincidence technique and the selective sampling method. The results agree, however the values have to be corrected because of the presence of a long-lived intermediate state at 304 keV. The beta spectrum has a complicated structure, and therefore the extrapolation to a beta efficiency of 1 is not straightforward. Different threshold settings are discussed for performing the extrapolation. The measured correction is compared with the values obtained by a calculation which uses tabulated data.